From Praise to Worship | Pastor Paul McGee

Amen. You can stand with me today all

across this place. I'm going to go to the word of

the Lord this morning in the book of Psalms, chapter 95.

Psalms 95 · chapter mention

Amen. To trust that you've had a good

week this week, Amen. Here back in Mount Carmel, Amen.

As we've had a good week, of course in Frankfurt, thankful

for what the Lord did there, strengthened and and you know,

it's kind of like A2 edged sword.

You come back and you're tired and body, but you're refreshed

in your soul. Amen.

But we're glad to be back. Amen.

Hopefully brought a little bit of it with us.

Psalms 95 going to be teaching here this morning.

Kind of ramping back up for tonight.

You know, I'm trying to get her going here and such.

Although I must admit that this was probably I've got the most

rest I've ever got at camp this year ever.

And that's because I'm, I'm not in any type of position that

requires necessarily me of anything.

And so that's now I understand life on that side and I don't

know if I ever want to go back. No, I'm joking, but Amen

actually did get rest. I got good sleep at night and

everything. So anyway, Psalms 95, there were

others among us that did not because now they're involved in

things and I'm like, I walked that road.

Happy for you, happy for you. Amen.

Psalms 95 verse #1 and going to read verse #2 and I'm going to

skip down to verse number six. The Bible says, O Come, let us

sing unto the Lord. Let us make a joyful noise to

the rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence

with Thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with

Psalms. Verse number six says, O Come,

let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the Lord our

Maker. Amen.

For a little while this morning. I want to teach you along these

lines from praise to worship from praise to worship a man we

want both of those aspects or both of those aspects should be

a part of a relationship with God, both praise and worship.

But from praise to worship, if you've ever been appraiser, you

are appraiser. Praise hopefully will lead you

to worship. Amen.

Let's ask the Lord to help us today.

Father, we thank you today, God, for another opportunity to be in

your house. We're grateful, Lord Jesus, that

you have met us here and we meet you here.

We pray, O Lord, speak through your word today, God.

Give us instruction and direction, Lord.

Words to live by. Lord, help us, God, in our

everyday lives and will not fail, Lord, to thank you, Lord

Jesus, for what you accomplished.

Lord, through your word in the lovely name of Jesus Christ that

we pray Amen and Amen may be seated this morning in Jesus

name. The setting of Psalms 95 and

maybe some of you know this or don't, but the Psalms really get

tucked back in the other areas of scripture that that that came

before them and stories that come before them.

And that happens with a lot of scripture with like Job and

others going forward. They get tucked back into like

First and 2nd Kings and the Chronicles and Samuel and so on

and so forth. Because David pinned some of

these Psalms when different things were going on in his life

or the nation of Israel. And so Psalms 95, the real

setting of Psalms 95 is on this wise the temple of Jerusalem,

after a time of having been destroyed or broken down have

been restored. And so now that this this temple

has had its restoration, these things David are is pinning

down. He's given an invitation for

people to come back to Jerusalem and more importantly back to the

temple that they had known and offer praise and worship and

adoration and have Thanksgiving because after the doors had been

shut for some time or not not even existing for some time now

this House of worship is open for worship one again.

And so he's alluring the people he is, he is calling them to a

place of praise and worship because particularly during

their years of, of exile, we, there's two exiles, main exiles

that take place in Scripture and Assyrian exile.

But also probably the more, the more, what's the word I'm

looking for? Notable one or people have heard

about more often is the Babylonian exile.

During those times, the, the, the the temple and the House of

worship was in many regards neglected, right, because the

nation have been taken and displaced to a land strange to

them and foreign to them. And so praise and worship on

some respects as far as being at a temple was, was was neglected.

As a matter of fact, you will remember another Psalm that was

written during the exile years of Babylon is Psalms 137 and

Psalms 137 and verse 4 even ask the the question is ask how

shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?

And they're talking about the children of Israel station in

Babylon. They're saying how can we sing

the Lord's song in this strange place when we are in captivity

and things are not as they were. And if you'll remember, Babylon

is even requiring this of them. They're asking the Israelites,

why, why don't you sing one of those songs you used to sing?

Why? Why don't you sing one of those

songs that you sang in Zion, that you sang in Jerusalem?

But again, the Israelites are in a very oppressive state at that

time. And so they're hanging their

heads. And because their circumstances

are just not they are just not in a favorable way that, you

know, praise would just come to their lips.

As a matter of fact, it's in that same setting, I believe it

is of Psalms 137. It describes as though the

Israelites had hung their harps on the willows, an instrument

that they would use and praise and worship.

They they hung their harps on the willows and they asked them

that question, how shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange

land? Because praise at this point,

praise was connected and is and always has been and will be.

Praise is connected to what God has done, what God has done for

us, what God has done for us. And so at this point in Israeli

history of Psalms 137, though he had done many wonderful things

for them as a nation, they couldn't observe with their eyes

him doing anything in the moment.

We're in captivity. What's God doing?

You know, where is God at? What's taking place right now?

And so they couldn't trace the finger of God at this moment in

time. And so since they couldn't see

him necessarily doing anything, there's a lack of praise because

praise is connected with what God does for his people.

And so their praise wanes and it, it, it dies, if you will, to

a certain, to a certain degree, because they cannot notice or

observe anything that God is doing.

And so as in our text, Psalms 95, the temple has now been

restored and the place of worship has been restored.

Israel now is coming there. They're going to gather there at

Jerusalem. The psalmist then is compelling

them to now praise God for what he has done.

You can read in the opening verses of verses one through 3.

He's he's, he's imploring them to sing unto the Lord, He's

imploring them to make a joyful noise unto the rock of their

salvation to come before the Lord with Thanksgiving.

Again, they're, they're given some type of verbalization of

praise for what God has done to, to, to make a joyful noise into

the Lord with psalms. He is imploring them to do.

Why? Why should we do all this

Psalmist? Why should we participate in

this? He tells him then in verses 3,

35 because the Lord is a great God, a great king above all

gods. His his hand are the deep places

of the earth. His strength is the strength of

the hills, the he made the sea. He's done these various things.

His hands have formed the dry hand land.

He just spoke some things that God had done, and so singing to

him make a joyful noise and to him come before his presence

with Thanksgiving because XYZ praise him because he has done

these things. But Psalms 95 is really divided

in a couple of sections. He is not just imploring us to

praise, but we'll find very soon that he is also imploring us to

worship. It's the 1st 5 verses or so Amen

that he's telling us about this praise and connecting our praise

with what God has done for us. But in the second portion,

starting with verse 6 on, He's talking to us about something

else. Not now, just an invitation to

praise and to extol and bless the name of the Lord for what He

has done and for the things that He possesses.

But in verse 6, something changes.

Amen. Again, the the invitation is

very similar in our English Bibles.

He says O Come. He said that in verse one, O

Come. And the O Come was an invitation

to praise. But now the O Come is a

invitation to worship. In the Hebrew, it's two

different words for come. It's translated as come in our

English Bibles, but they're two different words in Hebrew, which

is indicating to us really this, that our approach to praise is

not the same as our approach to worship.

Our approach to praise is not the same as our approach to

worship. And it's important that we talk

about this. This is one of those things that

I like to talk about almost every year.

Praise and worship because sometimes we mistake in one for

the other or we just lump it all together and mistake maybe

worship for praise and praise for worship when in in reality

they are different. Praise and worship is different.

Again, praise has to do with with deeds or something that God

has done. And when we do that, we

primarily have some type of utterance that associates with

praise with our mouth. There's some type of utterance

we'll see here in a little bit, or the using of musical

instruments. The Bible even speaks about

these instruments having a voice.

All right, And so with instruments that we praise the

Lord. But whenever we talk about

worship, worship has to do with the character of the object

that's being worshipped. Worship has to do with the

character, the object being worship.

And worship many times is illustrated through our

reverence or our all of whatever it is, is being worship to.

To kind of differentiate between the two a little bit.

You'll remember Leah, one of the wives of Jacob.

Her womb was opened, the Bible says, and she began to bear

children unto Jacob, one after the other.

She has one child other than the 3rd and on her fourth child, the

Bible says she has that son. And she said, now will I praise

the Lord? And she calls that son Judah.

We often times talk about how Judah, you know, means praise.

She says, now I will praise the Lord, Amen.

But what Leah is doing, she's praising the Lord because she is

thankful for what the Lord has done for her.

She has Levi and she has Reuben. She, she has these different

sons that are born, she's going to give thanks unto the Lord or

praise the Lord because of what He has done for her.

We read also in the book of Daniel chapter #10 Israel was

told that God is their praise. That's what he told them.

He said, God is your praise because He hath done for these

for the these great and terrible things.

Again the writer and Daniel is connecting them praise with

something that God has done for an individual or for a nation or

a group of people. And so in the Scripture we see

it over again in the Psalms and particularly about the Bible

speaking about singing praises or how we can praise him upon

the the high sounding symbols right.

Praise Him with the timbre on the dance, Speaking of musical

instruments or our dance, or with our voice.

And so praise many, if not all times involves a utterance from

an instrument or a utterance from herself, a person, or an

instrument. Praise is directed toward God

for what He has done, and we do that.

I thank you, Lord, for my house. I thank you, Lord, that the

bills are paid. I thank you, Lord, for healing

my body. I thank you, oh Lord, God, for

bringing a miracle in the hospital.

I thank you, Lord, for this or for that.

I thank you, Lord, for the house that you gave me and for

supplying the job that I can have resource for my family and

putting food on the table. I thank you, Lord, for helping

my family. Thank you for all these things.

But to become a praise people alone is a tragedy.

Just to be a people whose mouths is filled with praise is a

tragedy because praise is connected with what God does and

the blessings of God. And those things are only

momentary happenings. They're temporal.

You can have a job today and lose it tomorrow.

You can have your money in your pocket right now and just feel

lent in it, you know, the next week.

It's all just very temporal. But we praise God in the moment

for the momentary happening of what He has done, Amen.

All of those things that I praise God for many times just

have to do with, with matter or substance and time, but they can

just go right through our fingers.

But worship goes beyond just the facts, Amen.

Of what he did today or what he did last week or what He did in

a particular. Worship deals with something

that never changes. Worship deals with something

that doesn't fade. I said I was going to teach, but

I don't know what's going on right now.

Worship deals with something that never changes.

Worship lifts you to the level that deals with God and the

character of God. And though the flower may fade,

right, and all these other things, money and riches and

possessions and things of that matter may fall away, God went

on record and said, I change not.

And so worship is constant worship, praise is going to have

it's highs and it's lows based upon what God is doing in the

moment. But God is God and they don't

ever change. And so worship, there's not an

ebb and flow with worship. He's who he is, that's what he

was, that's who he will be. Therefore, I can be in awe of

God. Amen.

Worship is connected to something eternal.

Blessings come and go, but the blesser does not Amen.

It's eternal praise. It's many times it's just

expressed over something temporal or just a moment.

The Bible says in the New Testament scripture of

Colossians 2 and verse #3 it says in whom the whom is God, In

whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

All the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are in him, God.

So if I desire the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, I must

desire him because they're hid in him.

To try to seek those things, Sister Sheila, without seeking

him is going to be a very frustrated effort because

they're hid in him. They're not found independent of

Him, but they are hid in Him. To praise God only for what He

has done and not worship Him for who He is, is faulty.

It's like desiring the treasures of knowledge and wisdom, but

they're connected to something. They don't stand alone, they

don't exist by themself. I can get tunnel vision

sometimes just focusing in praise on what God has done and

get so concentrated on the doing that I forget the doer.

Amen. Because the big picture reveals

to me that what God does or what He has done is because of who He

is. That's the reason why I'm saying

today that let us go from praise to worship that once I, I, I

thank him for the job and possession and, and the money in

my pocket and healing my body. I want to trace, if you will,

the shadow to the substance. I want to trace the bless, the

blessing to the bless her. And so I'm thanking him for

this, that and the other. But that's leading me to the

character of God of who he is. That blessing doesn't come

independent of the one from which it comes.

And so I praise him. But then I stand in the hall of

where all of this has flown from.

Amen. Some people are, they're praised

junkies, but they never form a relationship with the

underwriter of the blessing. Amen.

All of those things are really to pull us to a place of worship

after Abraham in in the book of Genesis chapter 14, of course

Genesis 14 · chapter mention

Lot and his family had pitched their tent towards Sodom and Lot

end up becoming a magistrate of the city.

And there were some kings that did war against Sodom, Gomorrah,

and they took away Lot and his family and several others.

And Abraham got a band of men together because a Lot was his

relative and he went to war as a result of them being taken.

And he rescued Lot, his family and several others and several

of the things that were taken from Sodom and Gomorrah.

And the Bible speaks to us very plainly that the king of Sodom

wanted to come out and he said, hey, much of this stuff that you

brought brought back, you can just have, he said, just give us

the souls, give us the people. And you didn't take any of this

stuff, stuff that you brought back into your own hand.

But Abraham said no. He said, whatever my men have

ate, OK, you know, that's fine, he said, but nothing additional

am I going to take from you? Because I don't want it to be

said that I've been blessed or empowered by the king of Sodom.

I'm not going to. Not a shoe latchet, He said he

was getting detailed, if we can say it this morning.

Not a tennis shoe string. All right.

I'm not keeping anything. That comes from you.

Hey, although you're offering these gifts, Why Abraham?

Because Abraham understood blessings from wherever they

come from, they come and go. But I know who my blessings come

from. Abraham was satisfied with more

than a blessing. He was satisfied with the

blesser. That's the reason why in the

very next chapter of Genesis, after this whole scenario played

out, we see in the very first verse of Genesis chapter #15

that after all these things that Abraham denied, that from Sodom

said, no, I don't want to take anything, it's sufficient,

everything's OK. That then the Bible says after

these things, the word of the Lord came unto Abraham in a

vision saying, fear not Abram, I am thy shield and thy exceeding

great reward. You know what he's saying, good

job, good job, Abraham. He says, because you know who

your blesser is. You don't just know about your

blessing, you know about your blesser.

And you don't have to receive anything from Sodom and

Gomorrah, this wicked and perverse nation, because you're

linked to me. And as long as you're linked to

me, there'll be times, there'll be money in your pocket,

there'll be livestock in your pasture, as long as you

acknowledge me. Amen.

Worship is tied to the eternal. And worship many times is the

result of revelation, of revelation, Amen, of an

encounter. We see this all times in

scriptures that people have an encounter with God.

And the moment that they have an encounter with God, you know

what often happens? What's read next in Scripture?

They fell face down and worshipped.

Many times have some whether it's a burning Bush or however

God wishes to manifest himself. When there's an encounter,

people often in Scripture, they'll fall down and worship

because worship moves you further.

Worship is like being at the end of the spoke on a wheel, or

praise is praise is like being at the end of the spoke on a

wheel. But worship is about the worship

is about finding the hub, having an encounter with the hub.

The Bible tells us in Exodus 33, it tells us that when the people

saw the cloudy pillar at the Tabernacle door, they had

witnessed this. They they were all in their

tents. The tents of the nation of

Israel always faced toward the center where the Tabernacle was.

The presence of God was their tents faced inward.

It is truly it was God at the center of it all right, the

church at the IT was that in the Old Testament Amen wilderness

camping. Their tent door flaps were

toward that center place. And so the Bible says that the

the people were standing there and when they saw the cloudy

pillar at the Tabernacle door, they knew that to be the

presence of the Lord. They knew that to be the

Shekinah of God. The Bible says every man

worshipped. They were in awe.

He hadn't done anything. He was just present.

He was just present. He wasn't handing out this or

that at that moment. He was just present and they

were in awe and in the reverence they worshipped just because he

was there. He was just there wasn't per SE

doing anything in the moment. He was just see, God wants to

move us to that place. God wants to move us to a place

that will just be overwhelmed just by Him being there, even

even before he ever does anything.

I'm ready to get on board when he starts doing things.

I got tensions on today. It's like, woo Hoo.

But what about him just showing up?

What's your deal? He's here.

Were you down on your face for what got?

He hasn't done anything, but he's here.

He's not done anything yet right now, but he's here.

And as long as he's here, there's always the potential for

the doing so. Yeah, I'm going to reverence

that, huh? You know who?

He's just there in Moses. The Bible says in in the very

next chapter, the Bible says that Moses made haste and he

bowed his head in worship when the Lord just passed by before

him. He's just passing by, huh.

The president, the Lord just passing by Moses and Moses

recognizes that's the Lord. He's not giving him a new, a new

mantor or a new staff that's made out of Hickory.

He's just passing by, and Moses is like bowing, making haste to

worship just because he recognized God was there.

Hey man, the Bible says in Second Chronicles 7 and 3.

And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came

down in the glory of the Lord upon the house, they bowed

themselves. Here it is again.

They bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the

pavement and worshipped. They recognized him in that fire

and that God's here. Listen, the more that we

acquaint ourselves with God and know Him, the more we'll be

compelled to worship Him again. Everybody can praise the Lord

because God has done something for everyone.

Saints Center. It matters not.

He has done breath in your body, you know, sustained your

heartbeat for another day. Everybody can praise the Lord

because of what He has done for them, great or small, and a

Sinner can even worship the Lord, but that worship will

always be birthed out of knowing, coming to understanding

that that's God, a revelation of an encounter.

That's Him. The Bible says in Isaiah chapter

#6 verses one through 5 popular setting of Scripture, it says in

the year that King Uzziah died, Isaiah says, I saw also the Lord

sitting up on the throne high and lifted up, and his train

filled the temple. Above it stood the Seraphim's.

Each one had six wings. With twain he covered his face,

and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.

And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy is the

Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of his

glory. And the post of the door of of

the door moved at the voice of him that cried in the house was

filled with smoke. Then said, I woe was me, for I

am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips and dwell in the

midst of a people of unclean lips, for mine eyes have seen

the king, the Lord of host. Note, now note verse #3 once

again, that these seraphims that are crying out, holy, holy, holy

is the Lord of hosts. They're holy, holy, holy.

No, they're holy, holy Holy isn't a praise service.

Their holy, holy, holy is a worship service.

All right, again, worship having to do with the eternal things

that never changed. Their worship had to do with a

character of God. The Bible tells us that God is

holy. He said be there, be there for

holy because I am holy. That that's not that's not

something that God does. That's who God is.

And so the holy, holy, holy crying of the Seraphim's wasn't

praise service, it was a worship service, because that's what he

is. But notice them the result of

true worship that took place there at the House of God, as

those Seraphim's are crying out and acknowledging him, just

acknowledging his presence, acknowledging being there.

The Bible says that the post of the door of the House of God

moved. It says that the house then was

filled with smoke and what happened next was just great.

In reality, Isaiah felt conviction, yeah, conviction

fail. And he says, woe is me, for I am

a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among the people of

unclean lips. That conviction that fail in the

House of God wasn't the result of a praise service.

It was the result of a worship service.

Whenever they recognize that God was, their conviction fail.

And Isaiah began to realize his own self in light of who God was

in that worship scenario. Hey man, whenever the whenever

the Israelites in the Old Testament, whenever they got

their release from from 400 or so years of bondage, their their

release happened is because God told Moses, he said have the

children of Israel. You tell Pharaoh that they need

to have some reprieve to come a three day journey into the

wilderness where they'll offer sacrifices and offerings unto

me. You tell them that is the

purpose all right of their of their travel and to do this to

go into the wilderness and to do this listen their call from God

to go that three day journey wasn't a call for praise.

It was a call for worship because worship is service.

Worship is sacrifice. What released them in essence

from the hand of bondage wasn't their praise, it was their

worship. I've seen people praise God left

right for things he done and still be bound, still be

incarcerated by A&B&C. But when you begin to

acknowledge God just for who He is, things begin to change.

They tarry. The Israelites do 40 years in a

wilderness and God had an intended destiny for them, all

right. But there was only a few of the

previous generation that would actually make it to the promised

land. We understand, of course, Joshua

and Taleb. We also understand that it was

all those that were 20 years and older that would be lost in

their years of the wilderness. So there are, you know, those

that were 19 and younger that could be in the generation that

went into the promised land according to the word of God.

But there's only some that actually reached that intended

destiny out of millions of people that were in the

wilderness. And this is what the Psalms 95

says about this whole scenario of wilderness journey.

It says in verse #8 he says the psalmist says harden not your

heart as in the provocation, as in the day of temptation in the

wilderness. He said when your father's

tempted me and proved me and saw my work, he said for 40 years

long was I grieved with this generation and said it is the

people that do in do air in their heart and they have not

known my ways. Hold on now.

They knew His work, but they didn't know His ways, he says in

verse 11. And to whom I swear in my wrath,

that they should not enter into my rest folks Israel as a

nation, in their years of wondering, they were blessed

that God didn't several things for them in their wilderness

journey. Amen.

But they were all the time testing God and proving God.

And what they seen of God was his work, but they never

acquainted themselves with his ways.

All right, the word ways means manner, or habit, or course of

life, or moral character. They knew what he did, but they

didn't totally come to terms with who he was.

They saw his work. How Oh, they're crying out for

food and God sends mana from heaven.

A man just as as the frost would form that that little coriander

seed that that was white would form along with the the dew on

the ground and they could gather it six days a week and double as

much on the 6th day. God provided mana for them.

And when they got tired of that, he sent quail.

And as you said, the Scripture, it was quailed, that was

probably as deep up to a person's shin for a particular

area. And so they had quail.

They ate it so much till they were vomiting it out their

nostrils, so to speak. According to to Scripture, God

did something for them when there was no water source.

He caused water to come from a rock.

God did that. They praised him.

They knew the work of God and what that when the bitter waters

were there, they could not drink up.

He had them have a tree and throw it in the water and God

made the bitter water sweet. They could praise God for that

because of what he had done, could praise Him when the fiery

serpents appeared and He had him put a, a serpent on the Poe and

looked at that to get a reprieve.

God did that. They could praise Him for that

over and over again. But all that was temporal.

All of that man in that crowd, all of that was just bound to

the wilderness. They did not reach their destiny

because they elevated the work, the doings of God over never

getting acquainted with the ways the character of God.

They saw his work, but they didn't know his ways.

Let me say this morning, there are some places that worship

will take you that praise will not.

Praise didn't get them praise. It's those that that was mindful

in all in reverence, an acknowledgement of the way of

who the character of God, who he was.

Almost the whole generation of the old generation died off, but

they had witnessed everything he had done, but they didn't

familiarize him themselves with His ways.

You look at the Old Testament Tabernacle and you're in that

outer court of the Tavern. You have outer court, the inner

court or what's known as the Holy of Holies, and then you

have that innermost place that the holiest of holies.

And in that outer court, of course, there wasn't a canopy

over it. There wasn't a roof over it.

And the natural light of the day help, of course, keep it lit

during the day and such. It was a place of sacrifice.

That's that's where the the altar was and the labor that the

priest washed in was at. It was a place of sacrifice,

which to us makes sense that this is a place of worship.

If you'll remember in Genesis 22, whenever Abraham was

commanded of God to take Isaac up into this Mount Moriah range

to sacrifice him there, that's what was going to take place to

offer him up. And that was his only son.

Whenever the other servants that were with Abraham were with him

and he says me and my son are going Yonder, his word choice

was we're going Yonder to worship.

But there was going to be sacrifice on that mountain,

which equated for us for one of the very first times in the

Scripture, the word worship be used equated for us.

What worship is about sacrifice says we're going Yonder to

worship. What's happening up there on the

sacrifice of my son? There's something that's dear to

me. And so worship.

And so here in the outer court where we have the the altar and

we have the labor and where sacrifice would take place in

essence, a place where worship would happen, right?

Because whatever you deemed was so precious to you, you said you

could OfferUp for something that was more precious, acknowledging

him. Amen.

And listen, fuck, that's a big thing.

That's a big thing. Whenever God required like the

firstling of your flock, you understand how big that was,

that you invested seed and grain and thyme and watering for these

animals to then have a union and give offspring.

And you're going to take the first one and you're giving that

to God with no guarantee that you or whatever there's ever

going to be another one born from their womb.

But by faith, that's all you got right now.

And it's like that one goes, I mean, that, that that's, that's

honoring something being more superior than what you have.

That's worship. And so then you go into that

holy place and, and it is covered with a canopy and

there's a roof over it and there's the the lamp stand that

is there that's that's providing a light for the purpose of of

the table of shoebread and for offering the incense.

It's a place of service. It's where the priest would go

in and he would eat from the table of shoebread and he would

OfferUp, if you will, the cause of incense on this altar from

the fire that came from the outer court altar.

And he's going to put that on there and he's going to trim the

Wicks. And so it's a place where

ministry is taking place. There's service that is taking

place, but then you're going to enter into the holies of holies.

But even prior to that, whenever you enter into that holy place,

you're going to enter in through these these pillars that Isaiah

talks about, the wonderful counselor, the mighty God, the

everlasting Father. And so as you're going through

here, you're remembering this fact that he is wonderful.

And so you know he's wonderful. You don't even have to account

what he's done. He is just wonderful and they

counting all that in and you're taken by the awe and you're

taken by the wonder of just who He is.

It just produces and, and evokes, if you will, a posture

of worship. Amen.

For ourselves and for His service.

But we get into that holies of holies and and there is no

lampstand and there is no sunshine and there is a canopy

and if there's going to be any light there, he's got to be

there. It's dark without Him being

there. So there's going to have to be a

supernatural light, no natural light, no artificial light.

It's going to have to be the light that comes from him.

And in there, there's no service.

There's there's, there's no, there's no bread.

There's no, there's no service. There's no work that's

necessarily being produced right there.

What, what are we doing there then?

We're just to be in awe of the presence that shows up there.

Nothing else is allowed and you're not taking, you're not

taking no, no animal, you know, skin in there.

You're not doing all that. The Bible even talks about, you

know, he was He's going to change his garments so that

there's no sweat allowed in this area.

All your problems, all your frustrations, none of that

because none of that is to share with the glory of the Lord, no

flesh your glory in his presence.

You just want to get into a space where there's nothing to

acknowledge but him and you worship.

Frustrations go to the back seat.

You're not bringing that there. You're just there to acknowledge

Him. When we get in a mind frame of

worship, worship, worship will will help us block other things

out that don't need to be entertained in the moment.

Whenever we begin to acknowledge Him and see Him and then realize

in the moment in worship, we really truly begin to

acknowledge God. You know what I realized when

I've come in with all my baggage and all my woes of the week and

I truly get into a place from praise to worship?

You know where I get to. Nothing else matters in this

life but what's right here, God, all the headache and the stress

of work from the past week, Fred.

It just kind of sloths off over here to the side because in the

moment of worship, everything else subsides.

Amen. Psalms chapter #90 try to be

mindful of your time. Psalms 90 verses 1/2.

Psalms 90:1

The psalmist says and, and these are really, I believe words that

are borrowed, if I'm not mistaken, from Moses.

We redo this and the first five books of the Bible.

Lord, thou has been our dwelling place in all generations before

the mountains were brought forth or ever.

Thou has formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting

to everlasting. Thou art God.

You have been our dwelling place in all.

In other words, it wasn't. It wasn't that you just became

that to us once there was trees and grass and the days of

creation had taken place. No, prior to that, you have been

our dwelling place in all generations, he says.

The psalmist is saying that our living was not based upon what

we had necessarily, because before the mountains, right, but

but, but before the earth was formed, before the world, it's

not based upon what we had, but upon who we knew.

Again, in verse 2, the emphasis is that before God did per SE

anything, before there were any deeds of God, there was God.

Sadly, sometimes as as generations have went on and on,

we've based our living and our dwelling upon rather what God

does rather than just God. The mountains, the valleys, the

springs, the flowers. That's the reason why some many

times people are ready to uproot when it appears that God's not

doing anything for them, ready to throw in the towel when God

isn't seemingly observably doing anything for them.

But that's just living in the shallow end of the pool.

We got to get back to the deep waters of worship and amount

must allow Him to be our dwelling place.

Everything else will pass, but He's eternal.

Worship is eternal and so by divine decree man's has a

preoccupation with God. That is worship.

There's there's an old Pentecostal Apostolic saying

that used to say if you wonder where the wonder went, it went

out with the wonder. Let me say it again, if you

wonder where the wonder went, it went out with the wonder, the

all the reverence for just who God is in New Testament

Scripture. You can read it in the Gospels.

The Bible says you know the story, two sisters, Mary and

Martha. Martha was troubled about many

things. The Bible says she was

encumbered. She she's serving in the house,

but she's frustrated because she's trying to serve without

worshipping. Mary said at his feet.

She sat there a posture that made him in a very literal

display higher than she was She she's postured in a place that

he is exalted. He he is the superior in this

house. At this moment.

She's sitting at the feet and Mary that was going to be very

Martha looks at and says, Lord, do something.

My sister isn't serving, but she was because she was worshipping.

Huh. She was perhaps better posture

to serve than Martha, because she's in a position of all of

who was there. She was worshipping, and

Martha's really effectiveness of her service could only be as

effective as her worship was. But she didn't have time for

that Doo Doo Doo Doo. No, you needed to take time to

acknowledge who's in your house, time to acknowledge who's there.

So I don't want to find myself in a Martha type of mentality

where I become frustrated trying to serve the Lord, trying to

serve the Lord, you know, and make my life a service to the

Lord. Just this, oh, I just want to do

the things that are right and, you know, abstain from doing the

things that are wrong. Listen, if that's what the

service, your service for the Lord boils down to, just trying

to do the right and keep from the wrong, then you're going to

find yourself frustrated and unsuccessful because worship is

when you have an encounter. Worship is not my list of do's

and don'ts, right? It my service isn't based in

that. My service is acknowledging when

God shows up, Amen. When God is there or the God

that is in my life, Amen. That's when I acquaint myself

with worship, and that is when my service exceeds and excels,

when I acknowledge him. Remember the Old Testament

story, the, the, the, the Philistines.

And it went around from Ekron and to five of the Philistine

cities, the, the, the, the Ark of the Covenant, which was

revered as the very presence of God.

And they took that thing and they put it in the temple of

Dagon. And you remember they put it in

there and, and the next morning, you know, Dagon was cast down

and everybody kind of, you know, the Humpty Dumpty back together

again, you know, set him back up on his stoop there in the

presence of the Lord, in the presence of that ark of the

Covenant. And then the next day he's down

again, says like those hands, just the stump remained.

It's just broken off there. Listen, whenever we get to a

place of worship of just his presence than anything else that

is or in around just the acknowledgement of his presence

won't be able to stand when there's true worship that is an

acknowledgement of just him being there won't have the power

to get back up, won't have the power to resist you because of

the acknowledgement of him. So what are you saying you just

got to keep acknowledging him. You got to you got to keep

unawareness about the Lord and please understand you've heard

me say this before. Our acknowledging him doesn't

just acknowledge in him in here. I I've stood in line at a

grocery, you know, place before and acknowledge the presence of

the Lord. Come in a moment on owl #13 I,

I've stood in on the line of the production line before doing

work and all of a sudden God showed up and acknowledge that

He is there. And so you just got to keep an

awe and a reverence and acknowledgement of Him until God

destroys the things in your life that that are trying to

overpower and move in and seep in.

They'll no longer have power over you when you acknowledge

the one that is truly in power with you day in, day out.

Amen. Come in.

You know, praising, praising for the victory, Praise, pray

sometimes might help you get the victory, but that's momentarily

Worship will help you keep it. Praise might let you get it, but

worship is going to help you keep it.

Amen. You stand for me today.

Now I'll hasten to a close here in the end, when this thing's

all over and the smoke is settled, and you know this has

come to the great culmination of that great get up morning, and

all things are said and done. You know what God ensures in the

very end of time, not so much that everybody will praise Him,

but that everybody will acknowledge Him.

You know the Scripture in Philippians 2 Wherefore God also

hath highly exalted Him and given Him a name which is above

every name Speaking of Jesus and that at the name of Jesus every

knee should bow, which is the the physical observable

demonstration of worship, falling face down, reverencing

every knee shall bow of things in heaven, of things on earth,

things under the earth, and every tongue should confess that

Jesus Christ is the Lord to the glory of God our Father.

He says in the end of time, you know what I'm looking for, what

I'm looking for, the acknowledgement of who I am,

aside from what I've done, the acknowledgement of my way, my

character, who I am. And so the Lord is constantly

then dealing with us, moving us from praise.

He's wanting us to follow the line, you know, follow the line

to worship. You ever pulled, you ever pulled

wire in your house or want to find out where that one thing

was connected or what was on that and you had to trace a wire

and you trace it back to, you know, it's different places.

Oh, that goes to that. That's what you're doing with

praise. He's wanting to take you from

praise to worship, from the doing to the doer, from the

blessing to the blesser, from the creation to the create door.

In all generations, He has been my dwelling place.

Can we close our eyes in this place this morning and can we

just begin to acknowledge God? I know you may be able to rattle

off the things He has done and the blessings that He has

secured and provided in your life, but can you take a moment

and aside from everything else, just acknowledge Him for who He

is. He is holy, He is great, He is

love. Can you just acknowledge Him for

who He is? And when you begin to do that,

there will be a all AWEA, all that will just just somehow

begin to resurrect inside of you.

A reverence. A reverence that causes you to

stoop your head and bow your body in honor to this great

superior God. Just who He is, who He is, is

enough and who if if we can acknowledge just who He is and

and not take for granted for who He is?

Again folks, that He alone is The Fountainhead for all that

which flows from Him as blessings that we praise Him for

in our life. But if you disconnect yourself

from Him, you disconnected yourself from the one that

produces and affords the blessing.

Follow praise to worship. Follow praise to worship.

Come with your alabaster box that is of a family heirloom of

of of a salary of a man's wage of a year.

Come in with that alabaster box. What are you doing, lady?

What are you? Some said she was a Sinner.

What are you doing? I'm doing this.

I'm acknowledging that there's one right here in this room.

I'm acknowledging him. I'm acknowledging him and I'm

going to take something that's worth a lot to me, and I'm going

to say it's not worth so much that it can't be utilized on

him. I deem that he's worth more to

me than this very thing that I possess.

I acknowledge that. Would someone acknowledge him

today, Acknowledge him with your mind and knowledge Him with your

heart. Hallelujah.

Moses and Israel's falling down on their face just because his

presence was there. Moses says he passed by and so I

worship didn't do anything per SE.

He was just there. Can we not, can we not somehow

get callous to the fact of when we walk into the service morning

and night and on Wednesdays that God is there and just, if you

will savor the moment of just him being here, just savor the

moment of just his presence being there?

Oh, God, I thank you today. I thank you today, God, that

you've allowed us to be able to entertain your presence.

God that we're two or three. God that there you are in the

midst. God, I acknowledge you.

I acknowledge you. You're the great God.

You're the holy God. You're the almighty one God.

Yeah, I praise you for your mighty acts.

But God, I'm going to worship you just for your existence.

I'm going to worship you just for being, just for showing up,

for being the Ancient of Days. You've been Lord, my habitation,

Lord, in every generation. Hallelujah, Hallelujah,

Hallelujah, Shalabukola Baba Baba sandhya Baba saye.

Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised.

Why? Just because he's God.

He's God. He's God, no strings attached.

I worship him. I acknowledge him.

Hanu Rabbasa Rabbasi DDD, some Nuraba Koshaya.

Someone following from praise to worship.

Follow the blessing to the blesser.

Follow the doing that you have been supplied with to the doer.

Don't separate the two. Keep them joined together.

There's power in it. He's eternal.

He's unchanging. He will not fade.

He will not advocate his throne. He's gone.

All alone and all by himself. I acknowledge that today.

I acknowledge that today. Let's sing together.

Amen, if we can. That's an act of praise.

Let's sing together as we worship this morning.

I love you, Jesus worship.